88 days to go

Day 88! Struggled yesterday and this morning to get my terrible MVP online. Actually, it’s not even an MVP. It’s really a proof of concept, if barely that. But Y Combinator says if it’s not shit, you waited too long to ship. So F it. Tried sticking it up on Vercel’s python runtime through a basic Flask app, but should’ve realized that the limits and timeouts relating to a serverless function architecture wouldn’t be the easiest way to get it up and running....

March 14, 2023 · 2 min

89 days to go

Yesterday was a strong start, but I suspect keeping up the momentum will be the real challenge. Accomplished the following: learned the basics for LlamaIndex (formerly GPTIndex) and Langchain found and recorded some examples and resources for deploying chatbots built on said structures isolated some evidence-related resources to feed into a prototype, which even (*gasp*) required me to spend some upfront money! created a few working chatbots over said material, one of which ultimately seems promising picked a kitchy product name without overthinking it (which, for me, is huge) - “lawbrarian” –> short, ....

March 13, 2023 · 2 min